Copying a DVD with a Macbook

knightstyle

A friend has leant us a DVD, not commercial, and we would like to make a copy. What is the easiest way of doing this with my Macbook? I use VLC to watch DVDs.

InsideInsurance

Without getting software you can use the Disk Utility to do it (Applications -> Utilities).

Never needed to do it with my mac so dont know if there is a direct way of doing it but you can certainly use DU to make a image of the disk, then put a blank disk in and use DU to burn the image to the DVD-r

knightstyle

Thanks for that. After looking I found that Toast titanium has a DVD copying mode, very simple to use and worked first time, Result!

ada1988

You can burn the DVD to the other formats first.
Then you can use a DVD Ripper for Mac to deal with that.
This is the one My friends recommend to me.

wba31

If you wanna just copy the main part of the film to your macbook to watch and then delete, without holding onto the disc for weeks on end, i use Handbrake. it's free to download, and once you know how to use it, it's quite straight forward...